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Recent Examples of guck
The water levels varied with every step, rising from feet to knees to thighs in an instant, then back to shoe-sucking guck.
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Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse.
—Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
Take a look: The guck that comes out of what has been classified by INSIDER as an epidermoid cyst seems never-ending.
—Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse.
—Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
Take a look: The guck that comes out of what has been classified by INSIDER as an epidermoid cyst seems never-ending.
—Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guck
Noun
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The absence of snow and permafrost posed serious risks to the sled dogs, including potential injuries from mud and exposed terrain.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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In a reply to another comment, the U.S. Geological Survey explained that the eruption appeared dark in color due to mud that had settled at the bottom of the pool.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2025
Noun
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Given her past record of almost never getting into the muck of rumors around her personal life, the latter speculations make better sense.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Justin has been dragged into the muck since March 2024, when he was briefly detained at his father’s L.A. mansion the day of the feds’ raid (the rap star’s Star Island mansion got hit up by Homeland Security, too).—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
Noun
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In others, huddles of cormorants gather on the black sand beaches, and sea lions bark from the rocks.—
John Bartlett,
NPR,
8 June 2025
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Don't forget to walk down to Big Wave Bay beach, with its white sand beaches and, as the name suggests, excellent waves.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Guests can sign up to walk to the canal and toss in Genki balls, filled with microorganisms that eat away at the sludge in the canal created from manmade pollutants.—
Jalyn Robinson,
Travel + Leisure,
25 May 2025
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Reichardt’s previous films, such as her retro Westerns Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, have tended towards sludge and shadows, but her competition closer opens with the golden leaves of a New England fall, slightly faded to the paler golds of an Ektachrome postcard of the era.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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“Guck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guck. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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